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1.		Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (jse.li)
		692 points by eat_veggies on Jan 4, 2020 \| 90 comments
2.		No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation) (realworldtech.com)
		540 points by shaklee3 on Jan 5, 2020 \| 274 comments
3.		A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain (seattletimes.com)
		260 points by wallflower on Jan 5, 2020 \| 189 comments
4.		Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
		1337 points by futur321 on Jan 5, 2020 \| 970 comments
5.		Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler (parceljs.org)
		347 points by gilad on Jan 5, 2020 \| 201 comments
6.		Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016) (nature.com)
		262 points by nabla9 on Jan 5, 2020 \| 173 comments
7.		A Guide to WebAuthn (webauthn.guide)
		205 points by simonpure on Jan 5, 2020 \| 119 comments
8.		The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019) (gwern.net)
		240 points by Hooke on Jan 4, 2020 \| 113 comments
9.		How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) (online-literature.com)
		336 points by utopian3 on Jan 5, 2020 \| 166 comments
10.		The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC (fabiensanglard.net)
		143 points by ingve on Jan 5, 2020 \| 35 comments
11.		Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression (archlinux.org)
		271 points by nloomans on Jan 5, 2020 \| 153 comments
12.		Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age (nature.com)
		289 points by casefields on Jan 5, 2020 \| 142 comments
13.		JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator (github.com/paulmcinnis)
		160 points by paulm7242 on Jan 4, 2020 \| 37 comments
14.		How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built (nfx.com)
		145 points by domrdy on Jan 5, 2020 \| 38 comments
15.		Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems (terrastruct.com)
		187 points by alixanderwang on Jan 5, 2020 \| 99 comments
16.		Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (2019) (washingtonpost.com)
		158 points by andrewl on Jan 5, 2020 \| 86 comments
17.		Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009) (oreilly.com)
		98 points by chrispsn on Jan 5, 2020 \| 40 comments
18.		Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (danluu.com)
		265 points by jakevoytko on Jan 5, 2020 \| 76 comments
19.		Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright (theguardian.com)
		143 points by augustocallejas on Jan 5, 2020 \| 62 comments
20.		Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [pdf] (bea.gov)
		96 points by benbreen on Jan 3, 2020 \| 49 comments
21.		Cutting Google out of your life (2019) (github.com/tycrek)
		365 points by yarapavan on Jan 5, 2020 \| 175 comments
22.		Bio-coal: A renewable and producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass (advances.sciencemag.org)
		90 points by rch on Jan 5, 2020 \| 75 comments
23.		Lisp Symbolics Macivory 3 with loaded software (twitter.com/rainerjoswig)
		165 points by eecc on Jan 5, 2020 \| 79 comments
24.		Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation (learnjapanese.best)
		135 points by sova on Jan 5, 2020 \| 54 comments
25.		Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data (lesswrong.com)
		148 points by jocker12 on Jan 5, 2020 \| 64 comments
26.		Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility (washingtonpost.com)
		88 points by vo2maxer on Jan 5, 2020 \| 22 comments
27.		Reflections on Teaching Wargame Design (warontherocks.com)
		115 points by idl3Y on Jan 4, 2020 \| 9 comments
28.		Show HN: Set with Friends – A Real-Time multiplayer online card game (setwithfriends.com)
		95 points by ekzhang on Jan 4, 2020 \| 37 comments
29.		A little-known US-Canada border dispute (bbc.com)
		59 points by tomohawk on Jan 4, 2020 \| 12 comments
30.		Actix Web: Optimization Amongst Optimizations (brandur.org)
		120 points by brandur on Jan 5, 2020 \| 14 comments
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